Nancy Kyle Kent received her B.A in English in 1979 from Arcadia University. She then pursued graduate studies in literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She lived in Tanzania as a child, traveled and worked within other cultures as an adult, and is a former world-class marathon runner. She has worked professionally for the past 35 years with people who have experienced physical and/or emotional trauma. In 1992 she fell in love with the powerful and loyal Dogue de Bordeaux and went on to breed an International Champion. What compels her to write is an unremitting desire to give creative voice to the traumatic, the hilarious, the malevolent and the munificent.